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The Last Archive

Trial by Teenager, Part 2

The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The fact-checking experiment gets scaled up with 40 students in two states. The Super Bowl of fact-checking, and a final test of an idea that might help save American democracy.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Don Wildman, and on American History Hit, my expert guests tonight journey across

0:06.3

the nation and through the years to uncover the stories that have made the United States.

0:12.0

From first flight to first ladies, from stitching the star-spangled banner to striking gold

0:16.9

in California, to shooting for the moon with Apollo, we've got you covered.

0:21.8

Catch new episodes of American History Hit, a podcast by History Hit every Monday and

0:26.8

Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.4

Pushkin.

0:42.1

Imagine there's a place in our world where the known things go.

0:46.8

Or at least the people who are learning how to know.

0:50.2

Hi, school in Northern New England, early spring, late mud season, tulips, daffodils,

1:09.3

spring sports, computer science lab, model UN,

1:20.1

prom, and still more student announcements over the speakers.

1:34.3

Pick up your trash please, let's clean this place up.

1:37.0

We've come here to high school, to clean up American politics, where the trash that needs

1:42.8

picking up is a pile of lies.

1:52.6

Welcome to the last archive, high school addition, part two, the second phase of our experiment

1:58.2

and using high school students to find out what's true and what's not.

2:03.0

Everyone's got to do it, why not them?

2:13.3

Last episode we conducted phase one of our experiment to solve the problem of lies in political

2:17.7

ads.

2:19.0

Our solution, ask high school students to form juries and decide whether or not is true

2:23.6

enough to get posted on social media.

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